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4: Mr. SZETO Wah thinks that the addition of such a provision would be
in contravention to the Joint Declaration. What is your view? A: Indeed there is no such provision in the Joint Declaration.
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But
the Joint Declaration provides that Hong Kong shall be China's
China's special administrative region.
territory
What are Subversive Activities?
The second question is the question of (preventing Họng
We have to
Kong from becoming) a base for subversive activities.
consider whether we should make relevant provisions in the Basic
Law and what these provisions should be. So whether Article 23 of
the present draft is adequate or not has been raised again as a
question for study. And all these considerations are all based on
a precautionary thinking, without any other thinking behind them.
From your point of view, how should the Hong Kong people judge whether
an activity is subversive or not?
directed
A: If its objective is at the mainland,
say,
to sell the so-called
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Isn't it
system of democracy and freedom to the mainland
true that there is at present a suggestion that Hong Kong should
become a base for freedom, democracy and human rights? What is
meant by the word 'base'? To be a base means that there is something
to be sold to others, is that right? If what he was suggesting was
that Hong Kong should become a place of democracy and freedom, then
there is no implication of expanding such a concept elsewhere. But
if what he said was to make Hong Kong become a base, then it meant
that he wanted to expand such concept to the mainland. To put it in the mainland way of sayinhis would mean the changing of China's socialist
system.
Comrade DENG Xiaoping said a few
years ago that China
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